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Subject: Re: DB doesn't exist

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 10:59:58 01/14/00

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On January 14, 2000 at 13:15:13, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On January 14, 2000 at 12:09:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 14, 2000 at 09:25:09, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>>
>>>On January 14, 2000 at 09:02:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 14, 2000 at 06:36:05, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On January 14, 2000 at 06:21:04, Alvaro Polo wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>It is my opinion that Kasparov should play Deep Blue.
>>>>>
>>>>>This is off track. Kasparov always wanted the rematch, but IBM dismantled Deep
>>>>>Blue. Hsu's new machine is not Deep Blue.
>>>>>
>>>>>Enrique
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>DB Jr is still operational.
>>>
>>>But I don't think this matters. For the whole world, and this is what I think
>>>matters, DB junior is not the IBM Deep Blue that beat Kasparov. Would IBM play
>>>DB against Kasparov Junior?
>>>
>>>Enrique
>>
>>No... but I'll bet that if you call them and say "Hey, I will buy 8 of your
>>SP2's with 256 nodes each, but only if you let me play two games vs the real
>>DB hardware" then they would be glad to set it up.  Ie "dismantled" is still
>>the wrong term.  "Mothballed" is better,  because it _could_ play a game
>>with a few hours notice.
>
>OK, since we are already discussing this in this same thread (always a pleasure
>:) ),let's make it short. To make the re-match IBM's Deep Blue against Garry
>Kasparov, a necessary condition is that IBM's Deep Blue and Garry Kasparov will
>play. This condition is missing forever. DB Jr or Kasparov Jr won't do.
>
>Enrique
[....

It's rather pointless to bring up Deep Blue Jr.  That machine isn't what's being
talked about with a match, DB Jr. is just like a demo machine, not to taken
serious.  The whole Deep Blue, that's what you want to talk about.

Pete



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